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Facts About Virtual Reality Gaming
When talking about gaming, it is in today's time that kids are immersed in a different kind. This is because they can now play using virtual reality. This is something that kids in the past wasn't able to experience. And it is now that this type of gaming is starting to be popular. Getting hook on this kind of gaming is what some people are now experiencing.
It was during the 20th century that virtual reality or VR has been introduced in public. The interest of people has not been fully realized because of the fact that the development of the products with VR has not yet fully bloomed. When you will take a look at the VR of today that you will see that they are a mix of the sensual and 3D technology and is made purely with technical factors. A simulated environment that is virtual is what you will get when you will have virtual reality. It is also when you will do virtual reality that you will also need a medium that is mainly your computer keyboard, a special glove or a mouse. There is also a lot of accessories that you can have with VR gaming. Because of the factors that have been mentioned that it is you that will have an experience like no other in VR gaming.
Regardless of the improvements that VR has made all over the years, many experts still have optimism with the concept. A better enjoyment is what you will have with the game when you will involve both mental and physical abilities that you have. You will be able to bring in the commands using your mouse or keyboard. It is with these devices that you can interact in the game. For you have a great experience, you should make sure that you will really get involved in the game.
It is with the VR that whatever games you will be playing will have a very different experience. It is the technology of gaming that has been evolving over the years as evidence by the VR technology. When you are taking abut VR gaming that there are still a lot of things that can improve in. There is almost a perfect setup when it comes t the sight and sound factors in VR gaming. It is in VR gaming that the inclusion if other senses are also starting to be developed. The sense of smell is starting to be developed by certain developers. Stimulating the brain are also some of the rumors that developers are done when it comes to VR gaming. It is all of these rumors that will be revealed soon on the gaming industry.
With the trend that VR has today, developing these games can sometimes be very expensive. And that is also the reason why aftermarket products for this kind of technology also comes with a price. It is because of the growing popularity that VR has that it will not take long for everyone to get their hands on it.…


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MS4 Music Pack: Beyonce, One Direction and Green Day »
Categories: A Level, Eduqas (WJEC) A Level, WJEC A2, WJEC A2 Media Studies, Hot Entries, Music, British Pop Music, Fan Websites, Music Distribution, Music Industry, Music Promotion, The Press, New Media, Convergence, Internet, Social Networking, Synergy, Theory, Misc Theory
The purpose of this pack is to provide a research platform for students and teachers of MS4 by exploring key potential exam areas of questioning – a useful balance of Music Artists includes a global performer (Beyonce), a British/Irish artist (One Direction) and a more independent case study or at least, reflecting more an indie genre (Green Day).
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The music video is a classic example of a media industry that flourished on the back of technological advance.
The proliferation of home VCR and satellite technology created a fertile environment in which the new medium flourished, eating up the spare capacity in the schedules. Indeed, when MTV was launched in 1981 it only had access to a couple of hundred videos; by...[ read full article ] »
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A Dec. 8 Style article incorrectly said that Bowling Green State University is in Kentucky. The school is in Ohio. (Published 12/9/2005)
When Lucy and the rest of the Pevensie children went through the back of the professor's magic wardrobe, apparently they stepped into more than the crunch-crunch of freshly fallen snow.
They walked right into a grown-up spat about "The Chronicles of Narnia," the C.S. Lewis kiddie classic that is now a $150 million Disney movie, opening tomorrow nationwide.
A timeless fantasy about talking beavers, friendly fauns and a mystical lion named Aslan? Or insidious militaristic propaganda cunningly used to inoculate innocents with rigid Christian dogma penned by a pervy pipe-puffing Oxford prig who actually didn't very much like little children and might have slept with a woman old enough to be his mother? When he wasn't drinking. In pubs. With J.R.R. Tolkien.
"C.S. Lewis, Superstar." That's the December cover of Christianity Today (which compares the deceased scholar of medieval poetry, seriously, to Elvis). David Bruce, the founder of the faith and pop culture Web site Hollywood Jesus, writes, "God is speaking to this culture through its mythical movies." With a stream of teaching aids and Sunday sermons, some evangelicals are hoping that "Narnia" will do for tots and tweeners what "The Passion of the Christ" did for adults.
Or not. Philip Pullman, author of the "His Dark Materials" trilogy of children's fantasies, describes "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" as "a peevish blend of racist, misogynistic and reactionary prejudice."
"Here in Narnia," writes Polly Toynbee in the Guardian newspaper, "is the perfect Republican, muscular Christianity for America -- that warped, distorted neo-fascist strain that thinks might is proof of right."
So what is it? Are Mr. and Mrs. Beaver stand-ins for the Apostles? Or is the wardrobe, as the Freudians would have it, a womb-portal? What, exactly, was Lewis up to, in this fantasy of four English siblings helping a lion king save the world of Narnia from the curse of "always Winter, never Christmas" cast by the wicked White Witch?
This is where it gets a little tricky. Disney execs and their partners at Walden Media (founded by family-friendly Christian Republican billionaire Philip Anschutz) are marketing the movie to both secular and Christian audiences, with very different messages. They offered "sneak peeks" of the movie to hundreds of pastors around the country, but the 42-page production notes for the movie don't mention Lewis's Christian overtones. Indeed, in recent interviews Tilda Swinton, who plays the White Witch, denies the book is a Christian tract, but rather a parable about the Holocaust (and the witch is actually a Nazi white supremacist, but that's another story).
We got on the telephone.
C.S. Lewis scholarship has long been viewed as kind of fuddy-duddy-retro in academe, populated mostly by enthusiasts toiling away at religious colleges who often come to the massive Lewis output with an appreciation for its Christian message. "There is the feeling that it would be relegated to a corner," says Christine Mather, a Lewis scholar and a lecturer in gender studies at Vanderbilt University, "that it would be a lesser area of study for a lesser scholar."
Not now. Narnia Studies, with a minor in Harry Potter, are hot. "My goodness," says Christopher Mitchell, director of the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College in Illinois, which houses the most comprehensive collection of Lewis material in the world. "There is a ton of stuff coming out right now. It's a publishing frenzy. Everyone is trying to capitalize on the movie."
Over the years there have been dozens of Lewis biographies, and they trace the common narrative about the life of Lewis, which was actually odd and troubled. Where they differ is in what it all means. Lewis is often portrayed in split-screen images: the reactionary, red-faced Oxford don who dislikes children but is described by friends as humble and generous to a fault, who spends his evenings answering letters to his 10-year-old fans (and, by some accounts, every letter was answered -- can you imagine?).
The basics: Clive Staples Lewis, known as Jack, was born into a Protestant household in Belfast in 1898; his mother died of cancer when he was 9; his father shipped him away to an English boarding school run by a sadistic headmaster who was later declared insane; Jack began a lifelong appreciation of Norse mythology and Wagnerian opera. At 19, Lewis interrupted his studies to fight in the front-line trenches in World War I, where he was wounded, twice. He returned to Oxford and spent the rest of life teaching, reading and writing. He died the same day John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.
The juicy bits: After the war, Lewis lived for three decades with the mother of a friend killed in the conflict. No one appears absolutely certain what was going on. Janice King Moore was, according to Lewis's brother Warnie (himself an alcoholic), a shrew who forced Jack into a role of domestic slavery. But was Mrs. Moore (25 years his senior) simply an obligation, a surrogate mum or a lover? The consensus among scholars tips toward a physical bond (at least at the beginning).
Anyway, a year after Moore died, a Jewish former communist and atheist, the American Joy Davidman Gresham, came into his life, first as a fan, then as a friend and finally as his wife. She converted. She, too, died of cancer. Their romance is the subject of the 1993 film "Shadowlands," starring Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger. (And the subject of "A Grief Observed," by Lewis, which begins with the line, "No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear.")
A key to CSL is his three separate but interlocking careers, says Bruce Edwards, author of several Lewis books and English professor at Bowling Green State University in Kentucky: As academic, as Christian apologist (meaning one who speaks in defense of) and finally, best known, as the author of the seven books in the Narnia series, published between 1950 and 1956.
In his youth, Lewis rejected his religion and declared himself an atheist. But, in part at the urging of his friend and fellow Oxfordian Tolkien (a Catholic and, of course, creator of "The Lord of the Rings"), Lewis became a devout Christian in 1931, was a member of the Anglican Church and believed in a literal Heaven and Hell.
Edwards recounts how Tolkien and Lewis both spoke of how moving and transcendent the pagan myths were to them (myths Lewis later referred to as "the good dreams" that God gave man). Tolkien then pressed Lewis: If he so admired the fables of the Norsemen, the Romans and Greeks, the fairy stories of English and Irish countryside, why was he so opposed to the greatest myth of all, "a myth come true," the story of Christ in the Gospels?
After his conversion, Lewis seized his faith with zeal, writing works still popular today, including "The Great Divorce" (a description of Heaven and Hell) and "The Screwtape Letters" (an old devil instructs a younger one how to snag souls). "He was a true evangelist, full of fervor, but he wasn't a saint," says Nancy Enright, director of freshman English at Seton Hall University in New Jersey. "He wrote to convey a message."
In 1948, Lewis started work on his first Narnian chronicle, "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe." Citing his letters and other writings, Mitchell says that Lewis did not begin with the intent of composing a Christian fable, but instead with images: a faun carrying parcels in the woods, a street lamp in the snow, an old dusty wardrobe. Later, he added the lion. "But Christ wasn't there in the beginning," Mitchell says.
Many children (and adults) quite happily enjoy the book and never see the allegorical elements. The lion as Christ. The White Witch Jadis as Satan. Edmund, tempted by the Witch and her Turkish Delight, as a Judas. The lion king Aslan dies for Edmund's sins. He is crucified on a stone tablet. Disappears. Then is resurrected and lives again. Etc. Etc. There's tons of the stuff. "Once you start looking for it, it's everywhere," says Peter Schakel, professor of English at Hope College in Michigan.
Lewis was upfront about his meanings. "There's no debate over his intent. The lion is Christ. The scholarly debate is not whether Lewis used the Gospels in Narnia," says Edwards. "What is debated is how to experience the books or the movie," meaning how much instruction a new or young reader should get.
For his part, Lewis did not see the Narnia books as straight allegory, but as "a supposal," says Mitchell. Meaning suppose there was another parallel world called Narnia and in that world of talking animals, unicorns, Father Christmas, dwarfs, Bacchus, ogres and fauns, that God's son might be a lion and what would that story be like? (By the way, Tolkien, who was meticulous in his construction of Middle-earth, was no fan of Narnia. He criticized his friend for a mush of borrowings from myth, fable, fairy tales and Beatrix Potter; he also thought that the Christian references were too obvious.)
Lewis did refer to his Narnia books for children as "baptizing their imaginations." When children wrote to him, he would gently ask what figure Aslan reminds them of. "I don't know what Lewis would make of all this. He would probably be amused and appalled," Schakel says. "The unfortunate thing in all this hoopla is that people won't be able to enjoy the story."
A number of professors mention this very thing -- that they worry the evangelicals and their opponents, the Narnians and anti-Narnians, might go too far in pointing out the parallels. "If I would have had my choice, I would have let the movie come out and let people enjoy it and see what they saw," Mitchell says. "But I guess that is pretty naive at this point."


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This is an instructional tour; if you arrive with a camera, you will leave with good images.
To see images from this location, click the image above or here
Where: The Lost Church (very close to the middle of nowhere, but close to St. Louis)
When: Saturday, March 5th, 2016 1pm -3pm
Tuition: $75
Instructor: Dan Wampler
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Situated outside St. Louis in almost the middle of nowhere is the ruins of a small church. Built in 1883, the church has stood the test of time, or at least the walls have. Long gone is the roof, floor and windows. The ruins are well tended and sit at the entrance to a cemetery with headstones dating back to the mid 1800s. These ruins are open to the public and we capture their beauty with as much respect as possible.
Topics Covered
Working with natural light
Auto Exposure Bracketing
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Infrared Photography
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John Alexander
My 20 year brick wall, John Alexander. He is my ggg grandfather, born in 1768 in Virginia and married there. Had five known children: Martha Ann (1804-1875) married Daniel Dillon then Jacob Hiner, James G (1806-1834)my gg grandfather, married Phebe Dillon, Harriet (1808-1873) married Moses Scott, Jane (1810-1852) married Peter Shay then Seaborn Davies, and Thomas H (1812-1842) married Matilda Estes.
John died of cholera in 1837 in Hopedale, Tazewell county, Illinois.His wife died in 1830 of cholera. Nobody seems to know what her first or last name is which makes it impossible to trace John back to Virginia because of the number of John Alexanders in that state. Am in need of help that might lead to the identity of Johns wife or any descendants of John Alexander.Thanks.


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On the 30th Sept 2017 the AV Group organised a 'Drone Workshop' at the Birds and Bees for members led by member Les Johnstone. After a talk on the basics of drone flight and videography (including the regulations and safety for flying drones) members enjoyed a buffet lunch and then retired to the field opposite the Birds and Bees to demonstrate flying of drones (photos courtesy of Roger Stewart).
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After his victory with Qui Sait in the Tazza l-Kbira on 19th April, Rodney Gatt was declared the driver of the month. This is the biggest honour in the local harness racing calendar and it is every driver's wish to win it at least once.
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Axes and Arrows follows the story of Alice Catarek, of District 7. She is reaped into the 88th annual Hunger Games, and her past begins to reveal itself. A story written by Reddude.
Chapter OneEdit
It was all a huge blaze-fire. Smoke darkening the sky, a woman laying me in a small space between the rubble of what used to be a home in District… 12? She drew an arrow and fired it at oncoming soldiers. She faintly heard a scream, turned away, and was shot down by another round of fire…
I suddenly awoke, sweating, in the early dawn of the day. The day of the reaping. And for the third year in a row, I was up for it. I'm Alice Catarek, fourteen years old, resident of District 7. I live with my godparents. I say godparents because 13 years ago, there were no Hunger Games. Katniss and Peeta Mellark, two beings shrouded in mystery, but names familiar to everyone, had stopped them for quite a while- fifteen years, to be exact.
But after fifteen years, the Capitol struck back, and took back the districts. Nobody knows what happened to the Mellarks, some say they died in a cease fire in their district, District 12. If only I knew what they looked like…
Anyways, after the Capitol regained control, they rounded up district survivors and distributed them amongst the districts to repopulate. In the thirteen years that have passed since this event, the districts are slowly recovering.
I sit up in my bed and walk out to the window of my room, allowing me to see the inner realms of District 7. Peacekeepers prowling the night, more so than any other night, to watch and see if any district children tried to make a run for it. It would've been immensely hard to do so, though, as the thick woodland surrounding District 7 isn't easy to get through. The peacekeepers could easily catch any helpless, untrained twelve year old.
I pace around my room for the next couple of hours before my Godfather, Glow, knocks on my door. "Alice, it's time."
Glow comes from District 1; he was old enough back then to actually remember where he was from; what he had done. He lost his sister to the Hunger Games a few years back. "Coming…" I say while yawning, to make it seem like I had just woken up. I take my time walking down the stairs and into the kitchen where Glow and my Godmother, Magi, also from District 1, had set up a plate of bacon and eggs for me to eat.
I sat down at the table quietly, not wanting to talk, as usual. They knew about my dreams of the cease fire. They feel helpless about it, too, since the Capitol never told them where I was from, either. It's normal for them to leave me alone on Reaping Day.
It seems all too soon that I'm done with breakfast and Glow breaks out the pearl white dress from the attic.
"I hate that dress…" I mumble. Glow nods.
"I know," he continues nodding. "I know."
I grab the dreadful dress and head back up to my room to dress. It's a basic dress, pearl necklace included. I tie my hair into a pony tail, though it looks much better braided. The Capitol practically made braiding your hair for any event illegal, since it was the signature hairstyle of Katniss Mellark.
I finish dressing and somehow manage to walk down stairs in my high tops. I hate them; how can normal people walk in then normally? I see Glow in his tuxedo and Magi in her old wedding dress. I join them at the door and we head out to the square full of people. "It almost makes the reaping seem joyous." Magi states.
"Don't count on it," I say before two peacekeepers stop us at the square's entrance. Glow and Magi nod at them and they each grip one of my arms, escorting me to the fourteen year old female section. Only four others girls are in it.
Glow and Magi join the crowd of people too young or too old to be reaped just as our escort, Javius Clearbet, walks up to the podium.
"What a fascinating day for yet another Hunger Games cycle to begin!" Javius exclaims. I tune him out for the rest of his speech until he begins what everyone is dreadfully anticipating. "Now, to switch things up, we'll choose the male tribute first!"
Javius takes his time in the reaping ball until he snatches a slip of paper and slowly unfolds it. He reads, "Franco Demiross."
A movement catches my eye and I drift my gaze over to the eighteen year old male section. A large dark-skinned boy is making his way to the stage, showing no emotion; no fear.
It was obvious to all where this kid really belonged; District 11. Franco belonged in District 11.
"Welcome to the Hunger Games, Franco!" Javius joyfully welcomes Franco. After a brief pause, he walks over to the females' reaping ball. "Now for our lady!"
Javius reachesinto the girls' reaping ball, taking his time as usual. He plucks out another name and read it just the same. "Alice Catarek." Eh, as long as it's not- wait. It IS me. I AM in the Hunger Games. My skin went pale as I froze and a scene played back in my head.
It was a man standing with the silhouette of the girl from my dream from this morning. I didn't recognize the man, but he walked to the door to some noise I must not have been able to hear. Before I can see what he opening the door to, I snap back to reality. I'm being dragged up to the stage by two peacekeepers.
"Ladies and gentlemen, Franco Demiross and Alice Catarek, your District 7 tributes!" Javius exclaims. Trumpet fanfare plays and the crowd gives a half-hearted applause. I look to the back of the pack to see Glow and Magi, their faces mirroring the same shock that I had yet to recognize.
And that was that. The last I saw of anyone before Javius wisked me and Franco into a train headed for the capitol.
Chapter TwoEdit
They used to permit visits to the tributes before they were taken away, but of course, the capitol found some way to eliminate that from the process as well. Probably some bogus reason related to the Mellarks.
It's just me and Franco in the train car. I feel defenseless. Not only am I going to the capitol in a stupid dress, I'm completely untrained. I'll easily die at the Cornucopia unless I pull off some miracle.
Franco, however, wasn't as quick as me to give up. He just kept looking out the window and repeating, over and over again, "I'll be back, I'll be back."
And if he's going to do that, that means he'll have no problem killing me in the arena. Yep, I'm as good as gone.


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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — If you pay $1,000 for a winter coat, you expect to take home the real thing.
But police say a crackdown on Canada Goose coats led them to a store in Brooklyn.
Bags and boxes of fake Burberry items, Rolex watches, North Face jackets, and Canada Goose outerwear were seized from ASQ Sportswear on Fulton Street.
"I had an undercover come in and make a purchase of Canada Goose coat that was clearly counterfeit. We referred that info to the NYPD and they came back and made an arrest," Raymond Dowd, Global Security Investigations.
Dowd is an intellectual property investigator hired by designer labels.
"This investigation for this location began in December, however we have done a past case on this operator when he was down the block at 2794. Arrested and a large amount of product was taken a year ago," Dowd said.
Real Canada Goose jackets are in high demand, and high priced.
"Demand is super high," Matthew Kerr, Mildblend said.
The costly coats sometimes sell for over $1,000 making them a big target for those churning out fake products.
To crack down, Canada Goose filed a lawsuit in federal court in Chicago, aimed at counterfeiters in China who sell fake Canada Goose coats across hundreds of unauthorized websites.
So, how can you spot a phony?
"If you see something half-off or at a ridiculous price, like too good to be true, it's counterfeit," Steve Bernas, the Better Business Bureau said.
Special markings like a hologram polar bear label sewn inside, and overall appearance can be a giveaway. The same goes for spelling on the label.
Experts say it's hard to go after counterfeiters who seem to pop-up and go away pretty quickly.


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Famously nicknamed "The Mailman" for his ability to deliver in the clutch, Karl Malone teamed with guard John Stockton while playing with the Utah Jazz to form perhaps the greatest guard-forward combo in National Basketball Association (NBA) history. With Stockton feeding him the ball, Malone both overpowered and outmaneuvered to become one of the most dominating power forwards in basketball. For his efforts, Malone was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010.
Malone was born on July 24, 1963, and grew up on a farm in tiny Summerfield, Louisiana, in rural Claiborne Parish. He was the youngest of nine children raised by a single mother; his estranged father committed suicide when Malone was fourteen years old. As a youth, Malone developed a love of the outdoors that stayed with him throughout his life. As a basketball player at Summerfield High School, he led the team to three straight Class C state championships. He then attended college in-state, starring for Louisiana Tech from 1981 to 1985. During his collegiate career, Malone helped transform Tech into a Southland Conference champion and paced the Bulldogs to their first-ever trip to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Tournament in 1985.
The Utah Jazz—a franchise birthed in Louisiana as the New Orleans Jazz—chose Malone with the thirteenth overall pick in the 1985 NBA draft. Although the Jazz and Malone never won an NBA championship, they made multiple trips to the playoff finals in the 1990s. That was the same decade in which Malone won two Olympic gold medals—one in 1992 with the United States' famous "Dream Team" and another in 1996—further burnishing his reputation for gritty play and fierce competitiveness.
Malone spent his final year in the NBA with the Los Angeles Lakers—with whom he signed as a free-agent contract in one last, ultimately futile attempt to grab an elusive NBA crown—before retiring in 1995. By then, his resumé made him one of the greatest players in basketball history: he was second on the all-time scoring list, won fourteen All-Star nods, garnered two NBA Most Valuable Player awards, and earned a place on the league's fiftieth-anniversary all-time team. For those accomplishments, the Jazz retired Malone's number, 32, and unveiled a statue of him at the Energy Solutions Arena in Salt Lake City in 2006. Malone continues to enjoy an eclectic retirement, donating money to candidates of both political parties, serving on the National Rifle Association's board of directors, visiting US troops across the world, and speaking out in support of family farms.Author: Ryan Whirty
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Lazenby, Roland. Stockton to Malone: The Rise of the Utah Jazz. Boulder, CO: Taylor Trade Publishing, 1998.
Lewis, Michael. To the Brink: Stockton, Malone and the Utah Jazz Climb to the Edge of Glory. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.
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1. There was another man with him, he was one of the men from our business park. He's the real hero here. I'm sure that if the police hadn't intervened he would have dove in after him in a heart beat. The police only did get involved after the man jumped into the water.
2. The officers didn't appear to do any coaxing. They left that up to our guy.
3. They located the body at around 7:00-ish. Security staff and some of our building staff, who they were obviously talking to, could have told them.
On one hand I'm unhappy with the 'facts' as portrayed by the MEN. From my perspective on the 9th floor it didn't look like the police were trying very hard. Whether this was from regulations uknown to non police folks such as myself or just them being stunned, it looked delayed. On the other hand it's rare that suicides ever make it into the newspaper. During the months of May, September and December there are a handful of people who decide to jump in front of high speed trains. They're usually completely ignored by the press. It's nice to see some coverage of something like this happening and the comments of people who are sceptical of the police involvement. Then again the article never actually says 'suicide' does it?
Below is a shot of the policemen just after they jumped in. I was trying to take a picture of what I thought was a maniac about to go for a maniac swim in the canal. My batteries were dying so the flash went off. The man jumped in maybe 5 or so minutes before and this was just after he went under.


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Beijing has issued a stern response to reports South Korean coastguard vessels have, for the first time, fired machine guns against Chinese boats illegally fishing in Korean waters. There were no casualties reported from the incident on Tuesday, which was the first of its kind since the coastguard announced last month that it would pursue a "more aggressive" firearms policy with Chinese trawlers.
Disputes over illegal fishing have dogged relations between South Korea and China for years, and there have been numerous clashes between the coastguard and Chinese crew members.
Senior coastguard official Kim Jung-shik said the order to fire came during a stand-off with some 30 Chinese fishing boats illegally operating near the South's Yellow Sea border with North Korea.
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Electric vehicles are coming, and the past year has seen a number of big manufacturers roll out their plans for the electric revolution.
Although each is shooting for the same goal – profitability in an era of tighter emissions regulations – there are a number of different theories on how to get there.
Here are the latest formal plans, collated in the one place. If you notice a brand is missing – and many are – that means they've yet to offer any detailed announcement of plans for an electrification program.
Audi has promised to offer three new electric vehicles by 2020, with a third of all cars sold by 2025 to be electrified in some form.
Lower in the range, the rollout of electrification is likely to begin with mild 48-volt hybrids. Cars fitted with these systems use a water-cooled belt-driven generator in place of a traditional starter motor, allowing the car to coast with the engine off for almost a minute in the right conditions.
When the throttle is prodded, the engine can fire instantly back to life, while a camera allows the system to see when traffic is moving and preemptively start the internal combustion engine.
Further up the EV tree will be e-tron cars, with fully-electric powertrains. A crossover, previewed by a number of concept cars in recent years, will lead the charge in 2018.
Expect to see internal combustion playing a major role in the Audi line-up for years to come, though. Senior figures have said conventional engines are still "unbeatable" for their blend of power and efficiency, not to mention convenience.
BMW used a December event in Munich to outline its modular, electric future. The company wants to have 25 electrified models on sale by 2025, with 12 of those to be pure-electric. By this point, around a quarter of total sales are expected to be electrified vehicles.
Dr Ian Robertson, member of the BMW board of management, says the "trend toward e-mobility is irreversible".
To cater for the range of body-styles required for success in the current landscape, there will be modular platforms for passenger vehicles – think sedans, hatches and wagons – and the ever-growing X SUV range. Battery packs with heights between 80 and 140mm will be developed to suit the differing model lines.
Batteries will be housed between the axles, in 60kWh (450km range), 99kWh (660km range) and 120kWh (700km+ range) trims.
They'll be paired with electric motors with 100kW, 190kW, 250kW and over 300kW for a varied model range with entry-level, mid-spec, warmed-over and genuinely-hot performance models. The new architecture will debut in 2021.
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American car manufacturers are known for their big-engined muscle cars, but GM has been open in its desire to get ahead of the game on electric vehicles.
The Detroit giant has committed to offering 20 electric vehicles by 2023, the first two of which will arrive in the next 16 months. Unlike some of its competitors (and American upstarts) the company says fuel-cell vehicles will play a big role in the future as well.
"We think with electric vehicles, there is a two-pronged approach to this," Dan Ammann, GM president, told media earlier this year. "One is battery-electric vehicles, obviously, but we also believe fuel-cell will play a significant role and we are going down both paths. The BEV will be the mainstream high volume [path] in the shorter term."
"On the BEV side, we have launched the Bolt here – we were first to market with an electric car with usable range – we believe that the future will be heavily electric. Fuel cell will play a role in that and we are investing across all these technologies."
Just as its current success is built around a smart, modular platform, Volkswagen is planning to build its electric onslaught around the modular MEB platform, debuted in Paris with the I.D concept.
The I.D and I.D Crozz will both launch in 2020, priced similarly to the Golf hatch and Tiguan crossover respectively. The new I.D Buzz, a modern take on the legendary Kombi, will debut in 2022, while reports have also suggested the next Beetle will be a rear-driven electric-vehicle.
By 2025, the company wants to sell three million electric cars per year, while the entire VW Group line-up – somewhere in the vicinity of 300 models – will be electrified come 2030.
Fiat Chrysler
Er, next? Sergio Marchionne, Fiat Chrysler CEO, has been very open in his skepticism about electric vehicles.
Rather than banking on pure-electric power, Marchionne says the company will focus on combining electric power with internal combustion to meet tightening CO2 regulations.
"We are investing without making a lot of noise on electrification," he said. "We will combine it with combustion to yield the right level of CO2. But we're not betting the bank on going fully electric in the next decade. It won't happen."
Marchionne also said he hopes people don't buy the 500e. In other words? If you're keen on a pure electric car, look elsewhere.
Toyota (and Lexus)
Toyota is planning to aggressively ramp-up its electric technology in the coming years, with the goal of offering electrified powertrains across its range by 2025, and selling more than 5.5 million electrified vehicles by 2030.
Of those 5.5 million sales, the company wants 1 million to be zero-emissions. If the goal is met, more than 50 per cent of all Toyota and Lexus models sold will feature some form of electrification.
More than 10 battery-electric cars will be offered by the early 2020s, with the rollout commencing in China and spreading gradually to Japan, India, North America and Europe.
Solid state batteries will be a big part of this rollout, with plans to have the technology ready for consumers in the 'early 2020s'.
Along with solid-state batteries, Toyota has joined Panasonic for a study into prismatic batteries. The technology promises to cut weight and costs, allowing companies to squeeze greater voltage from batteries with fewer cells.
Finally, the next few years will see the development of the Hybrid System II currently doing service in the Prius.
A more powerful version of the powertrain will appear in some models (Supra, anyone?), while a simpler iteration will also help expand the hybrid line-up ahead of the early 2020s.
Volvo will have an electrified powertrain in every vehicle released from 2019, meaning all petrol- or diesel-engined cars will also feature a plug-in or mild hybrid system as well.
The move is part of a push to sell a total of 1 million electrified cars by 2025. The company also wants to have all its manufacturing plants carbon neutral by 2025, in keeping with the greener focus of electric vehicles.
Five fully electric vehicles, the first of which has been unveiled under the Polestar badge, will hit the market between 2019 and 2021.
The move is "about the customer" according to Hakan Samuelsson, CEO of Volvo Cars. "People increasingly demand electrified cars, and we want to respond to our customers' current and future needs."
Expect to see 10 full-electric Mercedes-Benz models in showrooms by 2022, after a recalibration from Daimler earlier this year. The company had previously committed to delivering the same number by 2025.
To make it happen, Daimler has promised $14 million for the development of electric vehicles, to be used by Mercedes and Smart.
The battery-powered range will be led by a mid-size EQ SUV, previewed by the Generation EQ concept at the 2016 Paris Motor Show. Dual motors make a combined 300kW of power, while a battery pack of unspecified size (somewhere 'over 70kWh') delivers around 500km of range.
It'll be built on a new modular architecture, developed purely for battery-electric vehicles. The way it's been designed, the wheelbase, track width and battery size can be adapted for life in sedans, coupes, four-wheel drives and essentially anything else in between.
The mid-sized EQ – potentially badged EQC – is expected to cost the same as a GLC when it arrives.
Hyundai has taken its time getting to electric vehicles for the global market, but it's planning to do things properly having committed to the technology.
Having admitted to being "around three years" late to battery-electric vehicles, a senior vice-president for the brand recently spoke of plans to be a 'fast follower' from now on.
Expect to see 38 'green vehicles' from the company, both electrified and fuel-cell-powered, by the time 2025 rolls around. A pure-electric Kona is coming in 2018, with a fuel-cell SUV (as previewed by the concept above) to follow.
Ford has been relatively quiet on electric vehicles, compared to General Motors, but the Blue Oval does have plans in the electric realm.
Expect to see 13 electrified models to arrive by 2021, starting with hybrid versions of the F-150, Mustang and Transit Custom, along with a pure-electric SUV – set to arrive in 2020. With range of 'at least' 480km, the compact four-wheel drive will be built in Michigan, and sold in North America, Europe and Asia.
Jaguar Land Rover
Every Jaguar and Land Rover will feature some form of electrification from 2020 onwards. Along with pure-electric cars like the upcoming I-Pace, that means the rest of the range will follow in the footsteps of the Range Rover (Sport) PHEV with some kind of hybridisation.
Reports have suggested the Land Rover electric vehicle will arrive in 2019, potentially carrying the Road Rover name, built on the same platform as the next-generation Jaguar flagship.
Honda hasn't announced a comprehensive roadmap like some of the other manufacturers here, but it has made a few smaller claims about when electric vehicles will be arriving, and what they might look like.
The company is planning to release two pure-electric vehicles in 2018, one for the Chinese market and another for the rest of the world. Although they're only concepts, the Urban EV and Sports EV concepts are both designed to preview the direction of that car. Get excited, folks.
Come 2022, Honda wants to be selling cars capable of charging in just 15 minutes. That involves developing new batteries, capable of handling the load involved in fast charging without deterioration.
There's also talk of smart power management systems in Honda cars, designed to shuffle power between its own battery, the home and the grid. Nissan has been playing around with something similar in the UK and in its homeland of Japan.
At the moment, the company sells the Clarity Electric in some American states.
Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi
Renault and Nissan were early to the EV game with the Zoe and Leaf, both of which are now into their second generation.
Don't expect them to rest on their laurels, though. The group, which now includes Mitsubishi, wants to launch 12 new electric vehicles. By that point, battery costs are expected to be 30 per cent cheaper than currently, while 15 minutes of quick charging is expected to offer 220 km of range.
Mitsubishi will have its range running on Alliance platforms by 2020, while Mitsubishi plug-in hybrid technology will be used across Renault and Nissan vehicles to cut costs.
Although it's hugely successful in Australia, Mazda is a minnow by global standards, which needs to be considered when discussing its research and development capability.
The company has teamed up with Toyota and Denso to develop "basic structural technologies" for electric vehicles across all classes, from Japan-only 'kei cars' to hulking four-wheel drives. The partnership also aims to deliver "appealing" cars to "embody the unique identities of each brand".
We'll see Mazda hybrids and battery-electric vehicles from 2019, but don't expect it to abandon internal combustion altogether. Instead, the company is planning for petrol- and diesel-powered vehicles to remain strong as the hype surrounding the likes of Tesla dies down, met by the reality of "well-to-wheel" emissions.
If the latest roadmap from head office is to be believed, liquid fuels will be dominant until 2040. In other words? Car company says what it's doing at the moment is just fine, thanks very much.
Speaking of small manufacturers, Subaru also lacks the research and development capacity of someone like Toyota.
With that in mind, expect to see the first Subaru EV models to be based on existing model lines, rather than ground-up creations. A plug-in hybrid SUV is expected to arrive in 2018, while reports have suggested an all-wheel drive SUV with a pure-electric powertrain is coming in 2021.
Peugeot Citroen (PSA)
Citroen has announced plans to have electrified powertrains in 80 percent of its cars by 2023, citing demand from China as a strong driver. A new platform, developed alongside Dongfeng, will be central to the electric charge.
Meanwhile, Peugeot will kickstart its electric range with a plug-in hybrid 3008, set to land in 2018.
The wider PSA Group will deliver seven plug-in hybrid models and four pure-electric models by 2021, with an expanded focus on connected, autonomous vehicles.
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Title: Inspiration Procrastination
Date: July 14, 2017
At a party, there was an impromptu jam session of vocalists, a mandolin, two guitars and a piano. We sang songs for an hour. There's nothing like singing to break down barriers between strangers.
Afterwards, a stranger said to me, "I can't sing."
"Everybody sings," I said, "even if poorly, just like everybody can draw or write or be creative to some degree."
"Hmmm," she said accusatorily, "what do you do for work?"
I said, "I'm a writer."
She said, "I want to be a writer, but I'm waiting for inspiration."
Author Mary Heaton Vorse wrote, "The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair." The secret of writing or of any art – sculpture, painting, singing – is, don't wait for inspiration, just get to work. Inspiration comes in the work itself. Even though it sounds empty-headed, I often have no idea what I'm going to write until I start writing. It's after starting that inspiration comes.
Action precedes creativity. It's true with faith, too. If you're waiting to feel inspired by God before you're willing to believe, then believe me, you may wait a long time. If you want to believe, act as if you already believe — read scripture, attend worship, commune with nature, pray, try meditation, hang with believers or be of service. Practice believing. Inspiration will come.
Let's Pray: Dear God, You create us with a divine creative spark inside us. Inspire us as we work, that we may discover our creativity and our faith. Amen.
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T.I. Makes Last Ditch Effort To Save His Marriage
If T.I. has his way, he and his wife, Tameka "Tiny" Harris, won't be getting a divorce.
As we previously report, Tiny filed for divorce from the hip-hop star earlier this month in Georgia's Henry County. The couple has been together since 2002, and married since July 2010, and T.I. is making a last ditch effort to save their union. According TMZ:
Sources close to T.I. tell TMZ he thinks Tiny has overreacted because they've always gotten through rough patches in their 15-year relationship. He waited a few weeks so she could cool down after filing divorce docs, but now he's trying talk "sense" into her … that they're good together.
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Your family and friends will think you spent hours in the kitchen on this amazing Pumpkin Angel Food Cake, when in reality its only 4 ingredients (without the icing) and super easy to make! This cake is perfect for when you are in a hurry and need something quick. We loved the taste of this cake and can't wait to make it again.
1 (16 ounce) Box of Angel Food Cake Mix
1 (15 ounce) can of Libby's 100% pure pumpkin
1/2 cup of chopped pecans (optional)
1 teaspoon of my homemade pumpkin spice
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix all ingredients together and pour into sprayed bunt pan. Cook on 350 for 30 – 35 minutes, until knife comes out clean in center.
You can glaze this cake if you like or enjoy it without.
1 cup of powdered sugar
2 teaspoons of milk
Mix together and gently pour over cake!
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I've made it with Any can of pie filling– yummy!
Hi! Do you cool this in the bundt pan or turned upside down to cool, like a plain angel food cake?
Can this be made with anything other than pumpkin?
Looks very tasty. Greetings Joe
I made this yesterday and it is DELICIOUS and soooo easy! I even added 3/4 cup of semi-sweet Chocolate chips.
wow this sounds soooooooo good
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Locksmiths in Mt Martha offer a highly demanded service, which generally relates to maintaining and installing the various types of lock systems, from the standard key locks to the complex electronic or biometric locks. The most common types of locksmith professions consist of the emergency, industrial, commercial, and residential, which each of the specific fields requiring different skills and abilities.
Residential work is likely to be the most common of the services provided by a residential locksmith. A domestic property owner looks at personal security and safety as a key reason when it comes to making sure a home is fully secured against a would-be intruder. A locksmith has gained the experience and knowledge to suggest the most effective locks for a properties doors and windows. Beyond the ability to install new locking systems, the locksmith is also able to repair or replace the locks on the older styled properties. Extra services offered by a local locksmiths offer security advice, a key cutting service, installing locks on a garage or similar outbuilding, and installing at-home safes or vaults.
How Do I Choose A Residential Locksmith in Mt Martha?
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How do I know who's the best locksmith for me?
Sometimes we tend to take the most important things in life for granted; your home security is perhaps the most important thing keeping you, your family and your most valuable possession safe. So when you're looking for a residential locksmith service here are some valuable tips:
Ask for a prior price estimation and compare — you don't want anyone taking advantage of your soft spots (you're family's security for instance) and over sell you with an upgrade you don't really need.
Check your locksmith's previous work — it's a huge advantage when you can hire a local locksmith to check all your locks and suggest a security upgrade. The reason is simple; your local peninsula locksmith knows the area inside and out, his everyday job is to solve emergencies in the neighborhood so he can spot right away where you're security tends to leave an unsafe soft spot.
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Nobody thinks that they will need the services of an emergency locksmith but regrettably things can occur that are just out of our control and you can find yourself unexpectedly needing the services of a 24 hour emergency locksmith to get you securely into your home, office, warehouse or even vehicle.
Locksmiths services may not just cover common lock picking and gaining entry into a buildings, services may also encompass other security associated services together with vehicle security, emergency boarding up, burglar alarm fitting and maintenance, CCTV fitting and maintenance and even more specialist services such as Door entry systems and building access control.
Vehicle Security and automotive locksmith services
Some locksmiths may also offer automotive locksmith services and may be able to gain access to your vehicle if you misplace your car keys or lock them in your vehicle. The objective of an automotive locksmith is to gain access to your vehicle without damaging the pricey locks which are more often than not more costly to replace than basic door and window locks.
An automotive locksmith may also offer key cutting and professional key coding allowing you to have spare electronic keys for your vehicle, these services typically cost much less than they would if you were to go straight to the vehicle manufacturer.
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The following media release has been issued by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England.
Please take the time to make your views known.
The independent Local Government Boundary Commission for England is asking local people how many councillors they think should represent North West Leicestershire District Council.
The Commission wants to know whether the district should continue to be represented by 38 councillors or whether there should be more, or fewer, district councillors in future.
The six-week public consultation is the first part of an electoral review which will also consider changes to the number, names and boundaries of the council's wards.
Max Caller, Chair of the Commission, said: "This is your chance to shape your council for the future.
"We are asking people across the district if they agree that 38 councillors is still the right number to represent North West Leicestershire in future.
"We want to know if you think 38 is the right number of councillors to be able to take decisions effectively and whether it's the right number to represent the interests of all North West Leicestershire's communities.
"If you don't agree that North West Leicestershire should be represented by 38 councillors, we'd like you to tell us your alternative and why you think there should be more, or fewer, members of the council in the future.
"Once we have taken a view on the number of councillors, we will re-draw ward boundaries to accommodate those elected members and we will be asking local people to have their say during that process as well."
Further information about the review is available at www.lgbce.org.uk
Residents can have their say directly at consultation.lgbce.org.uk
Or email firstname.lastname@example.com to find out more.
Follow the Commission on Twitter @LGBCE
The current phase of consultation closes on 18 February 2013. Once it has considered the evidence provided by local people and organisations, the Commission will publish its proposal on the total number of councillors in March 2013 and then begin to gather information to help draw up new ward boundaries.
The Commission aims to publish its draft recommendations for a new pattern of in August 2013 when it will consult local people again. Final recommendations are due to be published in January 2014 and the new electoral arrangements would come into effect for the council elections in 2015.
To have your say, write to:
The Review Officer (NW Leicestershire)
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Publisher : Elsevier - Science Direct (الزویر - ساینس دایرکت)
Journal : Hormones and Behavior, Volume 65, Issue 4, April 2014, Pages 351–354
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Testosterone is an important regulator of social–motivational behavior and is known for its dominance-enhancing and social-anxiolytic properties. However, to date no studies have systematically investigated the causal effect of testosterone on actual social approach–avoidance behavior in humans. The present study sets out to test the effects of testosterone administration in healthy female volunteers using an objective implicit measure of social motivational behavior: the social Approach–Avoidance Task, a reaction time task requiring participants to approach or avoid visually presented emotional (happy, angry, and neutral) faces. Participants showed significantly diminished avoidance tendencies to angry faces after testosterone administration. Testosterone did not affect approach–avoidance tendencies to social affiliation (happy) faces. Thus, a single dose testosterone administration reduces automatic avoidance of social threat and promotes relative increase of threat approach tendencies in healthy females. These findings further the understanding of the neuroendocrine regulation of social motivational behavior and may have direct treatment implications for social anxiety, characterized by persistent social avoidance.


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TALLAHASSEE -- The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the death sentence of Sam Wilson Jr., who was convicted of the 1980 murder of his father and 5-year-old cousin in Broward County.
The court upheld the first-degree murder verdict against Wilson, 33, for shooting his father in the head but ordered the charge reduced to second- degree murder for stabbing his cousin to death with a pair of scissors.
The state`s high court said there was no evidence that Wilson, of Fort Lauderdale, acted with premeditation when he killed the boy. It also noted that the death penalty was inappropriate for his father`s slaying.
The case, the court ordered, will be sent back to the trial court for resentencing, with the recommendation that a life sentence be imposed without the possiblity of parole for 25 years.
``I`m not disappointed at all to hear they reduced it -- for the same reasons they cited,`` said lawyer Rick Garfield, the former assistant state attorney who prosecuted the case in 1981.
``The legal grounds were there for the death sentence,`` Garfield continued, ``but Sam Wilson probably was not an inherently bad human being. He was in a frenzy. It was not one of those cold, calculated acts.``
A Broward Circuit Court jury disagreed. The 12-member panel deliberated for an hour in August 1981 before recommending that Circuit Judge Thomas M. Coker Jr. sentence Wilson to the electric chair.
Coker followed the recommendation. He said Thursday that he stands by his order.
``In retrospect, I think I was right. If I didn`t feel it was the appropriate sentence, I would have never issued it,`` Coker said.


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International Social Service to Present at CWLA's National Conference
Baltimore, MD, (March 20, 2017) – Felicity Sackville Northcott - Director of External Partnerships & International Services, Elaine Weisman - Program Manager, and Ausias Orti Moreno - Research Fellow, will be speaking at Child Welfare League of America's (CWLA) National Conference: Advancing Excellence in Practice and Policy: Highlighting Successful Strategies to Address the Needs of Children, Youth, and Families.
This presentation, which takes place on March 29th, will be included within the Conference's Immigration Super Session. This session will address challenges, effective strategies, and best practices for culturally responsive services for unaccompanied children and refugee minors in three key areas: (1) outreach to and preparation of the sponsors to ensure effective care for and integration of the children; (2) working with those who enter child welfare; and (3) best practices and resources to ensure the protection of the children who are ordered or voluntarily decide to return home. This will be an interactive session with case studies and opportunities for participants to brainstorm solutions to challenges. International Social Service, USA will highlight the need for social service systems to assist in safe repatriation and reintegration planning for children being returned across borders.
This exciting opportunity will promote excellence in policy and practice to promote the safety and protection of children and families.
Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) leads and engages its network of public and private agencies and partners to advance policies, best practices and collaborative strategies that result in better outcomes for children, youth and families that are vulnerable.
International Social Service, USA Branch is the U.S. member of a global child protection and social service network. International Social Service connects vulnerable children, adults, and families, separated by international borders, to the services and support they need.back to the list


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Our Homework Policy (described by Ofsted as 'innovative') identifies the homework set by each year group which we believe will best enhance the learning children undertake at school. It is designed so that parents and carers can identify the best ways of supporting learning at home and aims to avoid highly pressurised, irrelevant homework tasks which can lead to children associating learning with boredom. To find out more please follow the link below or ask a member of the teaching staff.
See Policies page for more information
In addition to set homework, children are given a list of optional tasks they could carry out to enhance their learning as well as the option to bring in their own ideas or even work reflecting their own interests.
Below are photographs of the extra homework undertaken by Tortoiseshell Class as a result of studying The Tudors for the last term. The children have shown brilliant engagement with this project, demonstrated in the sheer quality and volume of extra learning they have voluntarily produced at home.
Below are links to some websites which we think are great. If you have any other recommendations, please don't hesitate to let us know.
(Please note we cannot be held responsible for associated content of websites).
The Oxfordshire Play Association website has a range of great ideas for inspiring creative play.
Children from Years 2 to 6 have a personal login for Mathletics – a site where children can deepen their learning about any mathematical concept or race other children around the world whilst practicing their mental maths skills.
This website is packed full of e-books and ideas. It even has a 'how to say sounds' demonstration to help those of you with younger children who are learning to read and who wish to learn to pronounce the 44 English phonemes.
Some children have a 'Lexia' log in to support progress in reading. Please ask your child's teacher for login details if they have been mislaid.
This website has hundreds of stories for you to read or listen to at home, some of which are told by professional storytellers. There are also links to fantastic exhibitions and family days at the museum.
For all you maths-lovers out there, Nrich has a wealth of brilliant, stimulating and exciting maths investigations suitable for rainy days. (There are solutions too!)
This is a site which our teachers frequently use when planning their lessons which contains interactive games, problems, articles and inves-tigations but which is also suitable for children to use at home.
YouCubed is a great website all about maths created by Jo Boaler of Stanford University. Via this link, she offers an online course to support parents and staff who wish to improve their knowledge of how to support effective maths learning.


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The Ada West District is among the twenty six (26) Metropolis, Municipalities and Districts in the Greater Accra Region and it is situated in the south-eastern corner of Ghana.
It is carved out of the former Dangme East in the year 2012 and it is established by the Legislative Instrument 2129 of 2012 with its administrative capital as Sege and it lies about 80 Kilometres from Accra on the Accra –Aflao road.
The District lies between Latitudes 5°45'S and 6°00'N and Longitude 0°20'W and 0°35'E. The total land area of the District is approximately 323.72 Square km, which is about 10% of the total land size of the Greater Accra Region.
The District shares common boundary with the North Tongu District of the Volta Region to the north, Ada East to the east, Ningo Prampram District to the West and to the south by the Gulf of Guinea, which stretches over 45 Kilometres (27.9 miles) from Wokumagbe through Goi to Kablevu.
The population of the District according to 2010 population and housing census stands at 59,124 with 28,579 males and 30,545 females.
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Surveillance footage released Wednesday shows more than a dozen people do nothing to assist a Chicago bartender after he was attacked, left unconscious on the street and eventually run over by a taxi.
Per Chicago Tribune, 32-year-old Marques Gaines passed away February 7 at a Chicago hospital from injuries he sustained just outside of a 7-Eleven in the city.
Gaines' family released the video, and has filed a wrongful death and negligence lawsuit against several businesses, including the 7-Eleven, and taxi companies because of the incident.
In the video, Gaines gets confronted by a man just outside of the store. Another angle then shows an assailant delivering a knockout blow on Gaines, with Gaines falling on the side of the road.
Two people then quickly ran over and appeared to go through Gaines' pockets. Bystanders looked on as Gaines laid there rather than blocking off traffic or moving him to the sidewalk. After a little more than two minutes passed, a taxi ran over him.
According to the family, Gaines was missing his cellphone and debit card.
The initial attacker remains at large, but Chicago police are still investigating.
The taxi driver was not cited on scene, but is also mentioned in the pending lawsuit.
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This was a nice vacation. Didn't go anywhere but got a lot of stuff sorted and put away. Dropped off a trunk full of stuff to Salvation Army. It was also my 38th Wedding Anniversary. We went out to diner in a little whole in the wall restaurant my daughter found. Good Italian food with Frank Sinatra singing in the background. So much food, got a doggie bag for the leftovers.
Finished my Alzheimer's quilt for June. Came out really sweet. My challenge was to use an orphan block that had been sitting around on my ironing board for 3 months. It was left over from my first Small quilt swap. What should I do with it. After looking at it for a while I decided that I either wanted to create a story or make a scene. But what? While looking out my sewing room window, I kept thinking about the rotten caterpillars that ate all my pepper plants last year. And so a theme was born! I call it:
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2018 Audi A8 Lightweight Tech
The spaceframe for the 2018 Audi A8 luxury sedan will use a mix of aluminum, steel, magnesium and — for the first time — carbon fiber. Compared to its predecessor, this multi-material mix increases torsional rigidity by 25%, though the weight of the body-in-white is up 112 lb. due to the need to meet ever stricter crash standards, and accommodate new powertrains. The new A8 is expected to have a 48-volt electrical system, as well as offer full hybrid and plug-in hybrid variants. This required adding structure to protect the lithium-ion batteries.
One of the more interesting features of the new platform is the carbon fiber panel that closes out the bulkhead behind the rear seats. Designed to control longitudinal, torsional and shear forces, the panel has a varying thickness of between six and 19 layers. The individual layers are built up using carbon tape that is two inches wide. The layers are placed at pre-determined angles along the panel by a machines and the material wetted with epoxy resin that sets within minutes. Audi claims the bulkhead panel — which includes a pass-through for skis — adds 33% to the A8's torsional rigidity.
High-strength hot-formed steel components are used the lower front bulkhead, side sills, B-pillar and the front portion of the roof. Some of the panels used tailor welded sheetmetal blanks that place an optimum thickness sheet at each step along the panel. Other panels in the area are partially heat treated to increase strength, which allows a lighter weight panel section to be used.
Aluminum makes up 58% of the body-in-white, making it the most common material. A new heat-treated ultra-high-strength cast alloy with a tensile strength of more than 230 megapascal (MPa) and a tensile yield strength over 180 MPa joins the party for 2018. It is used in the car's cast nodes. Extrusions and sheet round out the aluminum used in the A8's body.
Under the hood is a magnesium strut brace. It connects the front struts and bulkhead in a triangle designed to stiffen this otherwise open section area. Secured to the structure with aluminum bolts, the brace contributes to a 28% weight savings compared to its predecessor.
Audi says 14 different joining processes are used the new A8. Roller hemming joins the aluminum side wall frame to the steel B-pillar inner structure, roof and sills. This allowed the engineers to make the door openings 1.7-in. bigger, and improved forward vision by reducing the size of the A-pillar-to-door joint. As expected, the new platform continues to use remote laser welding of the aluminum panels, a process to unique to Audi in the luxury sector. — CAS